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It appears that the shell shape of some turtles (which have limbs too short to be much help in righting themselves) is close to a gomboc. Don't tell the intelligent design folks :pac:
(Isn't wikipedia great, I'd never head of that half an hour ago and now I can post about it as if I know something
) Life ain't always empty.
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I've wanted one ever since I first stumbled across them. Can they be bought for a reasonable price? Time to go and find out.
You need to think of your neighbours, a gomboc can be quite noisy especially during mating season.
You need to have plenty of space for them to exercise, and enclosed with strong wire mesh to prevent their escape.
It's generally thought best to keep only either convex gombocs or concave gombocs, unless you want lots of tiny little gombocs, and bloody fights between the convex gombocs to establish superiority.
Good luck with your exotic pet
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My addition (stemming from Mr. Pudding's post)
It's my tippe top. For anyone who doesn't know them, you spin it and using some crazy physics it turns over onto it's handle. You can see a demo on it's wiki page but be warned it's not a cool metallic one 0 -
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Looks like this old favourite will need to be updated. Slightly. Christians weigh in at 32%, islamics at 23% and unaffiliated at a world-record high of 16%:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1218/breaking36.htmlIrish Times wrote:Christians are by far the most numerous among people who claim a religious identity, according to a international study.
The Pew Research Centre’s 'Forum on Religion & Public Life', conducted in 250 countries during 2010, found that there were 2.2 billion Christians in the world, some 32 per cent of its population. Based on analysis of more than 2,500 censuses, surveys and population registers in 230 countries, the study found that the next such largest grouping were Muslims at 1.6 billion (23 per cent).
They are followed by the 1.1 billion worldwide, or 16 per cent, who have no religious affiliation and are about equal in size to the world’s Catholic population. Next to these are the one billion Hindus (15 per cent), almost 500 million Buddhists (7 per cent) and 14 million Jews (0.2 per cent).
A further 400 million people (6 per cent) practice various folk or traditional religions, including African traditional religions, Chinese folk religions, Native American religions and Australian aboriginal religion An estimated 58 million people, slightly less than one per cent of the world’s population, belong to other religions, including the Baha’i faith, Jainism, Sikhism, Shintoism, Taoism, Tenrikyo, Wicca and Zoroastrianism.
More than eight-in-10 people worldwide identify with a religious group, according to the study. It estimates that there are 5.8 billion religiously affiliated adults and children around the world, representing 84 per cent of the 2010 world population of 6.9 billion.0 -
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Proof if ever it was needed that people who possess PhD's can still be ignorant and idiotic on various topics. 0 -
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